We evaluated the association of currently used pesticides with allergic and non-allergic wheeze among male farmers, and our results implicate several pesticides that are commonly used in agricultural and residential settings with adverse respiratory effects.

This study supports the hypothesis that all preschool children are not equal regarding traffic-related air pollution health effects: parental history of allergy, stressful family events, and male gender may increase their susceptibility to adverse respiratory effects.

Taking together our findings in the present study and previous evidence of increased mortality from other causes of death, we conclude that arsenic in Antofagasta drinking water has resulted in the greatest increases in mortality in adults < 50 years of age ever associated with early-life environmental exposure.

In the present study we examined private well water levels of arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead across North Carolina, and used a semi-ecologic study design to estimate the association between metal levels and specific birth defect phenotypes.

The aim of this study was to analyze cross-sectional data on rhinitis in the past year and pesticide use from 21,958 Iowa and North Carolina farmers in the Agricultural Health Study, enrolled 1993-1997, to evaluate pesticide predictors of rhinitis.

On the basis of the pre-existing local nasal mucosal lesions, excessive chromic acid mist in the school's surrounding areas and formaldehyde in the classrooms were considered to have acutely irritated the nasal mucosa, causing epistaxis.

There was little consistent evidence for an association of synthetic hair dye use with glioma, meningioma, or acoustic neuroma; however, prolonged use of dark-colored permanent dyes warrants further investigation given the high prevalence of hair dyeing.

This study shows that the overall health of self-employed hairdressers is lower than that of their wage-earning counterpart; this can be attributed to several aspects of work exposure, organization (including longer working hours, fewer protective measures and absence of preventive medicine in the workplace).

German Infant Study on the Influence of Nutrition Intervention plus Environmental and Genetic Influences on Allergy (GINIplus) | Lifestyle-Related factors on the Immune System and the Development of Allergies in Childhood plus the influence of traffic emissions and genetics (LISAplus)

The association between dietary intake of fatty acids (e.g., margarine) and allergic diseases (e.g., asthma) in children might be modulated by variants in the fatty acid desaturase gene cluster.

Our study showed that children attending schools close to motorways with high truck traffic counts in the Netherlands experienced more respiratory symptoms than did children attending schools near motorways with low truck traffic counts.

In this cross-sectional pilot study, the first carried out in response to the United Nations Environment Programme recommendations, we observed statistically significant associations between exposure to petroleum-contaminated drinking water and self-reported symptoms consistent with exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons.

Our results suggest that maternal serum 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) near the time of explosion is associated with lower risk of eczema, which supports other evidence pointing to the dysregulated immune effects of TCDD.

Triclosan concentrations were associated with allergic sensitization, especially inhalant and seasonal allergens, rather than food allergens; current rhinitis was associated with the highest levels of triclosan, whereas no association was seen for current asthma.

We measured immunologic biomarkers associated with an acute exposure to exothermic byproducts of a ureaformaldehyde spill and found a statistically significant difference for percent and absolute numbers of CD26 T-cells and autoantibodies to formaldehyde-human serum albumin conjugate.

Highway traffic exhaust in Swiss alpine highway corridors ( in the absence of other industrial sources) showed negative associations with the respiratory health of adults, higher than those previously found in urban areas. Positive associations were found between living close to a highway and wheezing without cold and chronic cough. The association with chronic cough was driven by a subgroup reporting hay fever or allergic rhinitis.